Volume 1 The Upper Warehouse Chapter 17, The Beginning of the Eurasian Dream
There is a small corner on the southeast corner of the second floor, which is renovated into a separate small hall with only guests in and out, and no waiters. The small corner hall is not big, only three small round tables, quite quiet, but because of the high consumption, it is never the first choice of ordinary students, but there are also occasional petty bourgeois students who come here for pastime or spring flowers.
At this moment, at more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a group of seven people, after ordering a few cups of coffee, came to the hall on the small corner and found that there was no one, so several people put the two tables together and sat down one after another.
Lin Yan reintroduced a few people, and chatted with Qiu Xianlin and Zhang Lanjun for a while. After several people introduced each other, especially Zhang Lanjun and Yu Zihan, the accents were very close, and when the two sides asked, they were actually fellow villagers, and their villages were very close, and Zhang Lanjun also had a cousin and Yu Zihan were from a village, and they were even more delighted. After that, Lin Yan gave a detailed introduction to the current situation of LY Studio and invited them to join.
Lin Yan redrafted a LY studio establishment and profit sharing agreement, in order to standardize the development, Lin Yan came up with a plan that had been thought of a long time ago: the studio started from scratch, Lin Yan is the developer of the LY hang-up assistant program, is the investor of the studio, and is also the initiator of the establishment of the LY studio. Lin Yan proposed that 50% of the profits should not be distributed as the studio development fund, but should be kept by Lin Yan, 8% should be used as management expenses (including: salary for the preparation of the working group, office expenses, meeting or dinner expenses), and the other 42% of the profits would be shared by everyone. At the same time, the studio has just started, and Lin Yan gives each person a salary of 800 yuan / month (now the minimum salary standard in S City is 450 yuan per month). For example, in the second week of May, the profit of the studio's income is about 30,000 yuan, and if there is only 60,000 yuan of profit at the end of the month, then at the end of May, each person can get 3,600 yuan plus 800 yuan in salary, a total of 4,400 yuan.
After Lin Yan took out this agreement, Fang Hui, Chen Zhi'an, Yu Zihan, Liu Dawei, Qiu Xianlin, and Zhang Lanjun After reading it carefully, they only disagreed on whether to receive a salary of 800 yuan, and there was no other opinion. Lin Yan does not make any concessions at this point, when it comes to setting up his own studio and inviting everyone to join, he must be paid, this is the starting principle of joining, and the amount of profit sharing rewards can be negotiated, but getting a salary is the first principle that must be set.
Chen Zhi'an and Fang Hui took the lead in signing and agreeing, and then everyone signed and agreed without objection, and Lin Yan announced that LY Studio was officially established.
Lin Yan is the general person in charge of the studio, and together with Qiu Xianlin, he is mainly responsible for program development, update and maintenance, including the studio's web design and promotion, Zhang Lanjun is responsible for network security and server maintenance; Fang Hui and Chen Zhi'an are mainly responsible for the administrative and logistical support of the studio, including accounts, customers, materials, etc.; Yu Zihan, Liu Dawei and Zhang Lanjun are mainly responsible for the business development of hang-up auxiliary programs.
In order to prevent the seizure of game accounts and tracking, it must be sold separately from the hang-up assistant program, and use another QQ account to contact other game studios. And note: All the plug-in programs they sell, once the player uses the plug-in program and is banned, it has no relationship with LY Studio and is not responsible.
With the development of the studio, Lin Yan plans the general direction, the first step is to accumulate the original funds through hang-up auxiliary programs or plug-ins; the second step is to register the studio as a network technology game company, focusing on the development of 17175 web pages and building a web platform; the third step is to act as an agent or develop games to develop their own business. Step 4,...... Not for now.
After Lin Yan negotiated most of the matters with everyone, without any objections, several people celebrated the success of the cooperation with coffee instead of wine, and then rushed back to their hometown LY's temporary studio-dormitory.
Several people are returning to the studio "Lin Yan's dormitory", Lin Yan informed Qiu Xianlin of the main idea of the web page, 17175 takes the homonym "play together" meaning, 17175 provides gamers with one-stop services such as shopping guides, information, strategies, forums and other games in the whole game life cycle, provides comprehensive marketing solutions for game publishers, and is a matrix, multi-platform, and comprehensive game media group for gamers, operators, and publishers.
Lin Yan decided to invest more energy and development direction on this webpage in the future, on the one hand, with the help of online game strategies and information to accumulate popularity, and at the same time build a communication platform for online game players, and at the same time release wonderful game video viewing and downloading and green stand-alone game download platform, as well as the current LY hang-up auxiliary download and other online game hang-up assistance in the future and free small plug-in downloads (plug-ins such as modifiers for stand-alone games), of course, many online game plug-ins in the future are subject to official default, but also can provide downloads.
Lin Yan knows that the current ranger network is not mature enough, and its main thing is to download and raid stand-alone games, but the future of 17175 is mainly a matrix, multi-platform, and comprehensive game media group for gamers, operators, and publishers in online online games.
After looking at the 17175.com webpage, Qiu Xianlin expressed his willingness to take the initiative to take on the task of building the web page. Because this is his strength, whether in website construction or security protection, he and Zhang Lanjun can share tasks and give full play to their own strengths.
After a few people discussed in the dormitory, Lin Yan decided to rent a house outside and set up a server, one of which is the current small web page, which is not enough to provide auxiliary resources for multiple people to download LY online hang-up, as well as video resources and online communication services that everyone needs to release immediately. Second, the network speed in the dormitory is really like a turtle crawling, and the power goes out on time at 12 o'clock every night. But these all need financial support, hey, now the studio has just been established, and the funds from the auxiliary sales of LY hang-up are only about 30,000 yuan, and they have just been able to build a server.
Now estimate the cost of setting up a server by yourself, the price of host performance and configuration is about 10,000 yuan, plus the cost of broadband, domain name, operation and maintenance, the first investment is about 15,000 yuan, as well as other expenses such as rent and water and electricity.
Now the daily number of hits on the 17175 website has exceeded 500 people, most of whom are online game players, and the registered members of the forum have also exceeded 150 people, and there are more tourists; With more and more hits, Lin Yan decided to move this studio out and set up the server as soon as possible, otherwise it would restrict future development.
The location of the studio naturally cannot be too far away from the school, and there must be a house to stay, because the establishment of the studio must have someone on duty to work, and the office also needs to have several computers, web design, online game program development and testing, and market development, which are essential. What's more troublesome is that S University has been expanding its enrollment in recent years, and according to reliable sources, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering will move to the Chenghu Campus next semester.
The Chenghu Campus is located in Xiangcheng District, a remote location, 1 hour's drive from the headquarters. Every Thursday, Lin Yan has to go to Wu Lei's house to tutor him in his homework, and he is familiar with that area. The economy of Xiangcheng District is a backward area in S City, but the transportation is convenient and the scenery is beautiful, where there is the second largest lake in S City, Chenghu Lake, and it is also the most famous hairy crab production area in the country. The water area of the city lake is about 180,000 acres, the shoreline of the lake is meandering, the water area is vast, the blue waves are vast, and the islands are connected. The Chenghu Campus is located in the middle of the lake and mountains, with a quiet and elegant lake in the back, a small and large-scale commercial district in front of it, and other colleges and universities on the left and right, which complement each other.
Lin Yan knows that the college will move to the new campus next semester, but the School of Computer Science is still in the main department, which is the biggest difference in the location of the studio at present, if the new campus is chosen, then if Qiu Xianlin and Zhang Lanjun continue their studies, it will be inconvenient to discuss work in the future, but if they choose to be near the main department, then Lin Yan and they are also inconvenient to come. After soliciting the opinions of several people, everyone's opinions are also not unanimous, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
In the end, Lin Yan decided to rent a small house outside for the time being, temporarily as a server setting location, and then move the server after the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering moved to the new campus, and then it will definitely need to expand the scale and add offices and accommodation points. Because now, first, the studio's funds are tight, and the cost of renting office buildings in the old city is high; second, the studio must register a company in the future, and the new campus is in Xiangcheng District, which is developing and starting a business, encouraging development, and there will be great preferential policies for registered companies; third, the new campus is connected to several colleges and universities, which is convenient for the development of new markets, and the old customers Zhang Lanjun and Qiu Xianlin can also take care of them here. The most important point, Lin Yan did not say, that is, the current Xiangcheng District is located in a remote area, the developer did not take care of it for the time being, the land is very cheap, and the land will be doubled after 08 years, Lin Yan wants to get familiar with it over there, and have the opportunity to win more land, even if he does not do real estate business, but he will definitely make a lot of money in the future.
Qiu Xianlin and Zhang Lanjun are very familiar with the area of Stone Lane, and it just so happens that there is a house for rent upstairs in the Blue Wind Internet Cafe. The Blue Wind Internet café itself is a small Internet café opened in a private store, with two floors, and the boss himself lives in that building, Lin Yan and a few people looked for a house and saw that there was a house for rent on the 4th floor, so they immediately decided to set the temporary studio upstairs, which is convenient for Internet access and work, the best of both worlds.
After the house was implemented, the next day several people divided the labor, Dawei and Fang Hui went to handle the broadband, Dawei is a local, a little related, on the same day, let people come to the door to install, apply for 100M broadband for civil use, only 120 yuan per month; Lin Yan and Qiu Xianlin went to purchase a new computer as a server, and the original dormitory computer was used as an office computer; Yu Zihan, Fatty, Zhang Lanjun and the three of them went to buy computer desks and daily necessities, which will be used as a base for several people for a long time, whether it is for office work or rest, Yu Zihan plans to live here for a long time, while learning computer knowledge, while conducting business.
After a busy day, the house on the 4th floor has a new look, and the metal shelves found in the second-hand market are just right to display the brains of the studio- The server is quietly displayed in a corner of the house; four rectangular tables are put together and placed in the center of the hall, covered with a layer of blue tablecloth, with a few pots of pothos in the middle, and two computers are displayed on each side of the large square table, which are neat and spacious, both as a desk and a conference table; when the new sky-blue curtains that have just been replaced are opened, the afterglow of the setting sun sweeps in, and the whole hall is full of light; in the room to the south, there are two simple single marching beds and a scrubbed old wooden wardrobe; fortunately, the bathroom is small, but the landlord has just renovated it, and everything is there; the only lack of a kitchen in the house makes the room clean and tidy。
Four computers are currently a little less, but the initial shortage of funds is barely enough. Qiu Xianlin has one, Lin Yan has one, Zhang Lanjun has one, and Yu Zihan, Fat Man, Dawei and Fang Hui share one. Because Qiu, Lin, and Zhang are mainly used for program development, web design, computer security services, etc., and the other computer is used for business development, there is no problem for several people to use it publicly. When the studio develops, everyone still needs another one.
The first week of moving in was the busiest, Lin Yan and Qiu Xianlin were a few people, for server upgrades and web design and production, Zhang Lanjun and Qiu Xianlin also had to set up server firewalls and security protection and other work.
A week later, under the snowball benefit, the sales of monthly cards increased by more than 500, and there were more than 200 seasonal cards, and there were only more than 60 half-year cards, and the annual card business basically could not be sold. What's even more gratifying is that more than half of the sales share is from the 17175 website, directly to Yu Zihan to buy, and the registered members of the 17175 website have exceeded 500 people. The income of a week instantly increased to more than 50,000 yuan. Qiu Xianlin and Zhang Lanjun couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, the two of them had not yet participated in the studio with LY hang-up assistance, but now the two of them have the same 6% profit dividend, and they are still very grateful to Lin Yan for their recognition, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of the two of them.
Now in the legendary game, there are already other hang-up assistance, and other game studios are making less and less profits in the sales of AFK assisted LY, so many game studios have begun to develop their own, and the new game AFK assist, although the performance of AFK can not be compared with LY AFK assist, but the cost is lower, and the price is lower, and there is malicious competition in the AFK auxiliary market for a while.
A week later, with the joint efforts of Qiu Xianlin and Lin Yan, they updated the original double magic plug-in and named it DB plug-in. Added automatic protection, class selection includes skill selection for mages, Taoists, and warriors, and added glow hints to items. After several tests, after Lin Yan confirmed that there was no problem, he asked Yu Zihan to negotiate with someone from Luye Game Studio through another QQ, and clearly informed that he would not be responsible for using this hookup once it was seized, and the price was 200 yuan a piece, and there was no counteroffer. Soon after the people on their side tried it, they called it too powerful, and they ordered 10 directly. Under Yu Zihan's operation, other game studios also quickly ordered, and more than 50 sets were sold in two days.
On the third day, there were people talking about this plug-in in the forum of the 17175 platform, and the price was speculated to 500 yuan a set, but Lin Yan resolutely did not allow direct sales on the 17175 platform, because this plug-in could be sure that it would be seized one day, and he didn't want to bring dust to the reputation of the 17175 platform. Lin Yan was willing to make less money, but also to clear the responsibility, and told Yu Zihan that once this plug-in was seized, he must immediately change the QQ number and no longer use it.